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Ecclesiastes. 12. 1. Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth.

Ecclesiastes. 12. 1. Remember thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth.

IF it be so, as they say, that none but young men do hear our doctrine; then this Text is well chosen for the auditory, to teach young men that which if they learn, they may say with David, I have more understanding then the ancient. Psalm. 119. 100. All Scripture is mans duty, and answers like John Baptist to, What shall we do? In the first of John the second and the twelfth, John saith, I write unto you babes, I write unto you children, I write unto you fathers, I write unto you young men, I write unto you old men. So the word which is called a flying book, flieth ⟨p. 451⟩from one age to another, from one sex to another, from one calling to another, till like a Judge it hath given every man his charge. Among the rest, I may call this Scripture, The young mans task. Wherein the Wise man showeth, when is the best time to sow the seed of virtue, that it may bring forth the fruit of life, and make a man alway ready to die. Let him remember his Creator in the days of his youth, and all his life shall run in a line, the middle like the beginning, and the end like the middle; as the Sun setteth against the place where it rose.

IF it be so, as they say, that none but young men do heare our doctrine; then this Text is well chosen for the auditory, to teach young men that which if they learne, they may say with Dauid, I haue more vnderstanding then the auncient. Psalm. 119. 100. All Scripture is mans duetie, and answeres like Iohn Baptist to, What shall wee doe? In the first of Iohn the second and the twelfth, Iohn sayth, I write vnto you babes, I write vnto you children, I write vnto you fathers, I write vnto you youngmen, I write vnto you old men. So the word which is called aflying booke, flyeth